The Pyramid of the Sun God () is a 1965 West German and Italian western film adventure directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lex Barker, Gérard Barray and Michèle Girardon. It is based on a book by Karl May, and was part of a boom of Karl May adaptations during the decade.Bergfelder p.188 It follows on from The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965), also directed by Siodmak and featuring substantially the same cast.
It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Veljko Despotovic and Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger.
Cast Lex Barker as Dr. Karl Sternau Michèle Girardon as Josefa Cortejo Gérard Barray as Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla Hans Nielsen as Don Pedro Arbellez Rik Battaglia as Captain Lazaro Verdoja Gustavo Rojo as Lieutenant Potoca Theresa Lorca as Karja Ralf Wolter as Andreas Hasenpfeffer Kelo Henderson as Frank Wilson Alessandra Panaro as Rosita Arbellez Jean-Roger Caussimon as Marshall Bazaine Antun Nalis as Pablo Cortejo Vladimir Popovic as Black Deer Branimir Tori Jankovic as Panteo Nada Radovic as Big India
See also The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) Karl May films
References
Bibliography Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
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